So I feel I had to cut in with some info. I introduced gigmaster to this collector. Some people say it’s impossible to collect that much stuff, or it’s wrong, or unethical, etc... this area is super rich in artifacts. Neighborhoods are built over significantly important sites everyday. About the same time this video was made I started hitting a new neighborhood construction site. The area was razed with bulldozers and then runoff ponds were cut in and lastly roads. Now they are building houses. Point being in the short time since this video was posted I have found over 100 points in this one 10 acre “cleared” area that they are building houses on. Now the site is completely finished and impossible to hunt anymore. So this is a hypothetical question, but is it better to pick them up and cherish them and treat them like the true priceless glimpses into man’s past that they are? Or should we let them lay and be hauled to a landfill or crushed by heavy equipment, or reburied a half a mile from their original location under a new Walmart? Just a thought!
It's better to have a national native American museum not native people's just natives so we can recover our history...well the general population anyways there's a few left that remember the shamen in the valley how we got here and how the Mason's betrayed us.
Suffolkdigger I too have found many,many,many awesome points, hatchets and grinding rocks. I live in Far East Tn. Only 39 miles as the crow flys from Cherokee, Tn. I moved here from Tulsa, Ok. I had a friend who found a lower jaw bone with 5 teeth in tact from a Mastodon. Any time I couldn’t find my friend I knew where he was. I believe his find was in Jenks. Good luck my friends.
in my opinion, I feel like I saved them, from being damaged more, however the native Americans feel they are sacred and should be left where they are. I guess everybody has their own opinion, a native once told me there a gift to find. so I'm not sure how to feel about finding them.
My father was born in a little community on the James River called Indian Rock, near Buchanan. It served the Indians well for thousands of years. God bless them.
I live in Michigan. The first time I took my new metal detector out I went to a local lake and scanned the shores thinking I'd find jewlery. After digging 50 or so bottle caps I became very discouraged and decided to quit and walk back to the car, on the way back I got a solid signal and decided to dig one more hole, I didn't find the signal but a foot and a half down i sifted the sand in my hand and out came a native american arrow head. I've been hooked ever since.
Hell ya I looked for 4 years man and I was done giving up and I came across the Sedalia big ole Spearhead never found anything before that and since then I've been so hooked it's taking up a lot of my life and it's one of my greatest Passions
That area where you found all those shells sticking out is a shell midden. Where Indians cleaned mussels and other out of the shells and disposed of the shells
Awesome collection... I appreciate this work. My grandfather from NJ was an archeologist. He has one of the best Indian Artifacts Collection in NJ, now passed on in the family. As a little girl, I was in awe! Those axes, I found one in the fields. They say they might be of the Giants. ??
Gig, thank you for sharing this. I have hunted arrowheads since I was a kid and have found very few. You have rekindled the fire! Glad it's Friday, I am spending the weekend hunting arrowheads.
Have a friend here for on west coast with a collection that’s easily as large. All the big collections were made back in the 30s, 40s, 50s. All the easy stuff is long gone.
back in the 80s there was a man on Grand Lake St Marys OH ,who had a house full like this ,I wonder if he still alive being in his 70s back then ,all us field walkers were welcome to come and hear him talk of his finds and learn he was a true historian
Every year across the country tens of thousands of artifacts are obliterated by farm implements by plows, disks, cultivators,etc. If not picked up by relic hunters or archaeologists, any knowledge they could relate is gone, any appreciation of the art they represent is lost.
The brass "button" is an ingot made melting brass into a crucible and then let cooled. Round crucible makes round button with flat side being the top of the lil brass puddle naturally cooled level.
Thanks for sharing this amazing collection on video, Gigmaster and thanks to the gentleman that's collected/preserved it. It's astounding to think of all the hours of work and the lives intertwined in those artifacts.
Wow! IMPRESSIVE! Happy to have found some artifacts in TN and just out walking in my home state Mi. Thank you for your videos. So education and interesting. Shows what years of dedicated looking can achieve. Here's to having eagle-eyes and spotting those goodies! ❤😊🎉🎉🎉
I have put together 1 frame full and think I have accomplished something. I have 1 ax head that got misplaced while moving and 1 grinding base and stone. I have dug a point metal detecting in an emergent weeds swim area. I watched a video of a guys house in Wyoming last night that was beyond amazing. over 50 years of collecting. I toured a private collection here in Wisconsin, no pictures and it had the most copper culture items that I had never seen before.
I see James whole collection .. A pretty amazing collection of stuff, I have family that lives in Suffolk Va. And hunted the fields before a very active spot
That was so awsome, and that's overflow, wow.. Thanks for sharing this, i don't think we will see something like this again. Will be looking for the upstairs video from you in the future.
I worked for Antique Helper Auction House when they got the Earl Townsend Collection several years ago. I had been there just a few months and this auction came up. So amazing to have this as my first introduction to auctioning and to Prehistoric Indian Artifacts. www.artfixdaily.com/artwire/release/5262-%E2%80%9Cthe-smithsonian-bird%E2%80%9D-to-be-offered-at-antique-helper-auctions-d
I may be wrong but I believe that the brass item you found is a rivet of sorts. Based on the back it looks like it would have been connected to a square post.
I see a clam shell.... Right there! The button had a tab but the welding failed over the years & it came off! Awesome collection right there Holy Crap brother!
Awesome. Glad I found you.. i am just getting into collecting stuff. But I tend to keep everything.. we went on a float and I found all kinds of old pottery, I told my husband I would try to put pieces together.. hard, when most peices are rounded not pointy anymore from being so old. Im from cumberland, md. I am trying to find cool places. So far alot of fossils, oh, I found on not arrowhead I dont thibk. Looks like a hook like looks like from slate. Again. Im learning
If you are ever in Corsicana Texas , go to Navarro College and ask to see the Robert S. Reading collection . He donated a part of his collection to them , and there are several rooms with the walls covered . I understand that he collected from every county in Texas .
fucking awesome man! Being able to tell pottery from rock is a skill that 99% of people will pass over, i'm real glad there's people like you out there saving these artifacts
I MUST SAY THIS IS A AMAZING COLLECTION OF NATIVE AMERICAN ARTIFACTS.. VERY IMPRESSIVE... I ALSO WOULD HAVE TO ASK , WHO CAN UPDATE MY THOUGHTS FOR A COUPLE OF MY OWN FINDS IN WESTERN LAWRENCE COUNTY TN..
About the best video I ever watched! Can you someday interview Mr. Prichard on how he located the artifacts? I live in the dismal swamp right off the old cedarworks railroad. On herring ditch.
If you want to be a real collector, try getting out walking farmers Fields for your entire collection. I have a friend that I would put his collection up against this one when it came to points and projectiles
A double Cresent bannerstone to be more precise It was found in Sussex co VA. The double Cresent is more of a Ohio type and the material comes from around Michigan or Ontario being banded slate..
my 10 year old wants a metal detector and I have no knowledge about anything to do with hunting... does anyone have a recommendation for a beginner? as far as which metal detector to start him on?
April Robertson I would just get him a very inexpensive one to start with to see if he likes it. (Walmart or Cosco) I recommend the minelab equinox for a more advanced unit. amzn.to/2AQemPf
incredible. I want to go there now and check it out and see how the lay of the land is . Where did he say thay came from? down in the water, mud banks? Was it like the are you were looking with the shells? TY, John
It's a guess but I am thinking those pottery shards you are finding out there are ones that broke during the firing process. They seem tempered with bits of those oyster shells which are so abundent along the shoreline and it seems like a lot of clay is there too. It doesn't seem like a great place to live because of the lack of freshwater but would be a great place to make pottery which they could then take back to where they lived. That was a great collection that guy had too wow. Thanks for the vid Gig!!
Gigmaster I just found a tiny tool maybe used for scraping meat and fat off hides my mom found the axe heads years ago in a neighbors field they said there an Indian grave yard there but they won’t let anyone excavate it
Gigmaster Thank you for your reply. I do have Hutchens from Henry County Virginia. Im Sure other places also but so far that's the only place I found. I love your videos thanks for sharing!!
Is there any chance you could talk that guy into a video of his entire collection? it would make a great video. Really enjoyed seeing that stuff, but video was too fast. Its worthy of a nice long video.
It is called a banner stone. Archaeologists have debated over the use of banner stones. Some have suggested that they are atlatl weights or ceremonial pieces. csasi.org/2005_april_journal/2005_april_journal_toc.htm
I asked an Arizona park ranger if my family could pick up pottery shards. He replied that the state had huge warehouses full of shards, arrow heads, sandals and much more and he said to help ourselves as the state would never, ever have time or resources to examine even a fraction of what they had. I said ok and off we went with our pockets full and smiles on our faces.
The Button at 4.14 mins, looks like it was a square nail on the back not a clasp, perhaps something used to nail into a wooden frame for upholstery ? A question if you dont mind ? where ish was the place with the fossils/ shells & how much above sea level is it ? thanks for doing the vids :)
what if the stones were not axes i mean they are stone ? if you was to try one out what could you do with unless it was real sharp or just made to bust heads i dont know
Wow...what a super collection of artifacts. Maybe it's time to check over the rocks we find a little more closely. Great vid Steve!
Anthony Brau I look at every rock in a different light now!
Yeah.....me too Steve! I've gotta stop pitching those oval rocks into the river!!!
how was that 'bannerstone'(?think thats the name) used.. ?
I do not think they (the experts?) know what it is used for. There are a lot of theories. It makes for good research.
i have been researching.. nothing seems to make sense right now, will see where this goes
So I feel I had to cut in with some info. I introduced gigmaster to this collector. Some people say it’s impossible to collect that much stuff, or it’s wrong, or unethical, etc... this area is super rich in artifacts. Neighborhoods are built over significantly important sites everyday. About the same time this video was made I started hitting a new neighborhood construction site. The area was razed with bulldozers and then runoff ponds were cut in and lastly roads. Now they are building houses. Point being in the short time since this video was posted I have found over 100 points in this one 10 acre “cleared” area that they are building houses on. Now the site is completely finished and impossible to hunt anymore. So this is a hypothetical question, but is it better to pick them up and cherish them and treat them like the true priceless glimpses into man’s past that they are? Or should we let them lay and be hauled to a landfill or crushed by heavy equipment, or reburied a half a mile from their original location under a new Walmart? Just a thought!
It's better to have a national native American museum not native people's just natives so we can recover our history...well the general population anyways there's a few left that remember the shamen in the valley how we got here and how the Mason's betrayed us.
Suffolkdigger I too have found many,many,many awesome points, hatchets and grinding rocks. I live in Far East Tn. Only 39 miles as the crow flys from Cherokee, Tn. I moved here from Tulsa, Ok. I had a friend who found a lower jaw bone with 5 teeth in tact from a Mastodon. Any time I couldn’t find my friend I knew where he was. I believe his find was in Jenks. Good luck my friends.
in my opinion, I feel like I saved them, from being damaged more, however the native Americans feel they are sacred and should be left where they are. I guess everybody has their own opinion, a native once told me there a gift to find. so I'm not sure how to feel about finding them.
@@johnwilkening5262 this country will be a parking lot soon! Can't find shit in a parking lot. Find rescue lable share.
You are right Suffolk. You from Long Island?
My father was born in a little community on the James River called Indian Rock, near Buchanan. It served the Indians well for thousands of years. God bless them.
I live in Michigan. The first time I took my new metal detector out I went to a local lake and scanned the shores thinking I'd find jewlery. After digging 50 or so bottle caps I became very discouraged and decided to quit and walk back to the car, on the way back I got a solid signal and decided to dig one more hole, I didn't find the signal but a foot and a half down i sifted the sand in my hand and out came a native american arrow head. I've been hooked ever since.
erizzo You'll find a lot more junk, than treasures. Don't get discouraged.
erizzo You been hooked on arrow heads?... obviously that's a metaphor for crack cocaine.
Hell ya I looked for 4 years man and I was done giving up and I came across the Sedalia big ole Spearhead never found anything before that and since then I've been so hooked it's taking up a lot of my life and it's one of my greatest Passions
You can find arrowheads with metal detectors?
I'll catch up to him if I can find the Fountain of Youth. Nice collection.
That area where you found all those shells sticking out is a shell midden. Where Indians cleaned mussels and other out of the shells and disposed of the shells
Awesome collection... I appreciate this work. My grandfather from NJ was an archeologist. He has one of the best Indian Artifacts Collection in NJ, now passed on in the family. As a little girl, I was in awe! Those axes, I found one in the fields. They say they might be of the Giants. ??
Gig, thank you for sharing this. I have hunted arrowheads since I was a kid and have found very few. You have rekindled the fire! Glad it's Friday, I am spending the weekend hunting arrowheads.
Have a friend here for on west coast with a collection that’s easily as large. All the big collections were made back in the 30s, 40s, 50s. All the easy stuff is long gone.
Swimbait1 lol, same with the civil war artifacts.
Not necessarily true. In PA they found a native dugout canoe at the bottom of a lake in the 60’s.
New stuff is still being discovered.
I love when old people get excited about things.
and I love you!
We are just glad to be able to make it to the end of the day 😮
Hopefully, you will be old one day.
@@anisuthideyakoindu I love you too!
@@michaeltaylor4984 That's a good thing to be glad about! I hope I see old age one day too :)
back in the 80s there was a man on Grand Lake St Marys OH ,who had a house full like this ,I wonder if he still alive being in his 70s back then ,all us field walkers were welcome to come and hear him talk of his finds and learn he was a true historian
It is a shame not to capture a little of the info from guys like that for all of us to see and learn!
That is most awesome collection Ive ever seen. WoW.
They're not rocks, they're STONES. The rocks (tares) were tossed out and discarded indefinitely.
Every year across the country tens of thousands of artifacts are obliterated by farm implements by plows, disks, cultivators,etc. If not picked up by relic hunters or archaeologists, any knowledge they could relate is gone, any appreciation of the art they represent is lost.
Dallas DautermanDallas sad but true. The farmers implements are decimating arrowheads left and right .
The brass "button" is an ingot made melting brass into a crucible and then let cooled. Round crucible makes round button with flat side being the top of the lil brass puddle naturally cooled level.
actually you should check if that button isn't in fact gold. I think it's gold.
Thanks for sharing this amazing collection on video, Gigmaster and thanks to the gentleman that's collected/preserved it. It's astounding to think of all the hours of work and the lives intertwined in those artifacts.
Stunning collection.. Artifacts nsre what got me started in the outdoors! Thanks for sharing
Amazing collection! I feel blessed to see all that!
Wow! IMPRESSIVE! Happy to have found some artifacts in TN and just out walking in my home state Mi. Thank you for your videos. So education and interesting. Shows what years of dedicated looking can achieve. Here's to having eagle-eyes and spotting those goodies! ❤😊🎉🎉🎉
I have put together 1 frame full and think I have accomplished something. I have 1 ax head that got misplaced while moving and 1 grinding base and stone. I have dug a point metal detecting in an emergent weeds swim area. I watched a video of a guys house in Wyoming last night that was beyond amazing. over 50 years of collecting. I toured a private collection here in Wisconsin, no pictures and it had the most copper culture items that I had never seen before.
I see James whole collection .. A pretty amazing collection of stuff, I have family that lives in Suffolk Va. And hunted the fields before a very active spot
This is neolithic.copper age and bronze age archaeology artifact.So important material.for international studios.
Just splendid getting to see these artifacts. I learned a helluva lot by watching. Thanks for the post!
Yellow Hammer me
Pussy still hot
The brass item is the head of a brass rivet.
I thought that too
The banner stone made of banded slate is incredible!
That was so awsome, and that's overflow, wow.. Thanks for sharing this, i don't think we will see something like this again. Will be looking for the upstairs video from you in the future.
The brass piece looks more like the head of an old brass carriage bolt that snapped off right at the square neck.
I worked for Antique Helper Auction House when they got the Earl Townsend Collection several years ago. I had been there just a few months and this auction came up. So amazing to have this as my first introduction to auctioning and to Prehistoric Indian Artifacts.
www.artfixdaily.com/artwire/release/5262-%E2%80%9Cthe-smithsonian-bird%E2%80%9D-to-be-offered-at-antique-helper-auctions-d
John Hughes That is some crazy prices!
Amazing! Thanks my friend bringing us.
I may be wrong but I believe that the brass item you found is a rivet of sorts. Based on the back it looks like it would have been connected to a square post.
I see a clam shell.... Right there! The button had a tab but the welding failed over the years & it came off! Awesome collection right there Holy Crap brother!
That guy should open a museum.
Very AWESOME Thank You for sharing.
When my grandpa was young he was playing in the woods and stumbled apon a Indian hatchet piece
Awesome. Glad I found you.. i am just getting into collecting stuff. But I tend to keep everything.. we went on a float and I found all kinds of old pottery, I told my husband I would try to put pieces together.. hard, when most peices are rounded not pointy anymore from being so old. Im from cumberland, md. I am trying to find cool places. So far alot of fossils, oh, I found on not arrowhead I dont thibk. Looks like a hook like looks like from slate. Again. Im learning
Good luck out there!
Amazing collection.
First video I've watched of yours and am subscribing! Fun video brotha
Thanks!
Amazing!! What are the stones with the holes in them called? I found some big ones yesterday
Awesome collection and pick up all those pottery shards you can that's history you can't replace once it's gone it's gone .have a awesome nite brother
If you are ever in Corsicana Texas , go to Navarro College and ask to see the Robert S. Reading collection . He donated a part of his collection to them , and there are several rooms with the walls covered . I understand that he collected from every county in Texas .
Will do!
That Copper button top..i think it goes on the Epilet on the soldiers shoulder..
fucking awesome man! Being able to tell pottery from rock is a skill that 99% of people will pass over, i'm real glad there's people like you out there saving these artifacts
Great Video. I came across your channel today. Subbed you for more future content.
Amazing collection!!!
At 9:50 I have never seen anything like that before. What is it and what was it used for?
I MUST SAY THIS IS A AMAZING COLLECTION OF NATIVE AMERICAN ARTIFACTS.. VERY IMPRESSIVE...
I ALSO WOULD HAVE TO ASK , WHO CAN UPDATE MY THOUGHTS FOR A COUPLE OF MY OWN FINDS IN WESTERN LAWRENCE COUNTY TN..
I admire him and his collection I'm working on my own collection
I think that brass button is actually the very top portion of a brass carriage bolt.
About the best video I ever watched! Can you someday interview Mr. Prichard on how he located the artifacts? I live in the dismal swamp right off the old cedarworks railroad. On herring ditch.
Wow Steve you have hair! Never saw it before this video! What a neat collection of Native American artifacts. Wow!
If you want to be a real collector, try getting out walking farmers Fields for your entire collection. I have a friend that I would put his collection up against this one when it came to points and projectiles
Absolutely brilliant, what a wonderful ending. Thank you for that ☺️
That piece of brass was a musket adornment
What was that ornamental piece you showed that was valued at $100'000 dollars ? What an awesome collection that took a lifetime to amass !!!!
Jeffrey Elliott That was a banner stone made from banded slate, they were used as counter balance weights on atl-atls.
A double Cresent bannerstone to be more precise
It was found in Sussex co VA. The double Cresent is more of a Ohio type and the material comes from around Michigan or Ontario being banded slate..
Some people GOT the eye MAN.. that's COOL stuff.. some may have belonged to giants looks like
Well one group is said to of been giants but if it was tested or taken to a museum likely call it fake.
@@SULLIEDASP you should tell us why
Yes they I heard some giant human bone's have been saved now and being stored at a save place to keep it for being burnt to ash.
Where is this at? I would love to come look at this collection!
You ever come toward Hickory NC? I’d love to go searching with ya!! Great stuff! Thanks for sharing
A most excellent video 👍👍👏
These things people call "arrow heads" were in fact ancient butt plugs worn flat by the force of gravity over thousands of years.
Yep , now everyone knows what’s on your mind and in your ass
My first find ever was a full groove ax i have since found out i was hunting artifacts on a spot where the indians lived
Looks like an old timey hardware store
is there an Indian museum around there where they could donate some of that stuff to
Hey that's where all the arrowheads are share some with us!!!
Cool! We found a nice Metate after a wild fire in Arizona.just feet from a busy road.
Would like to know what that $100,000 item was called and made out of.
That was a incredible collection .
my 10 year old wants a metal detector and I have no knowledge about anything to do with hunting... does anyone have a recommendation for a beginner? as far as which metal detector to start him on?
April Robertson I would just get him a very inexpensive one to start with to see if he likes it. (Walmart or Cosco) I recommend the minelab equinox for a more advanced unit. amzn.to/2AQemPf
At 10:00 oh my gawwwwwwd! ❤️❤️❤️
Yeah. Golly Paw!
Are axe heads worth anything? I have one that looks really good
awesome, that button sure looks like gold, heavy + no tarnish. Hmmmm
brass botton looks like it could be a wax seal stamper ? or a pottery textile inlay ? mabey
Wow! Great job man. Thanks for sharing this, I'm glad I have subbed your channel.
incredible. I want to go there now and check it out and see how the lay of the land is . Where did he say thay came from? down in the water, mud banks? Was it like the are you were looking with the shells?
TY, John
It's a guess but I am thinking those pottery shards you are finding out there are ones that broke during the firing process. They seem tempered with bits of those oyster shells which are so abundent along the shoreline and it seems like a lot of clay is there too. It doesn't seem like a great place to live because of the lack of freshwater but would be a great place to make pottery which they could then take back to where they lived. That was a great collection that guy had too wow. Thanks for the vid Gig!!
Wow what a collection!
I got two axe heads at home in my collection
Cliffs Vids Nice, I have never found a whole one. I found a thousand arrowheads.
Gigmaster I just found a tiny tool maybe used for scraping meat and fat off hides my mom found the axe heads years ago in a neighbors field they said there an Indian grave yard there but they won’t let anyone excavate it
pictures on my end are hard to tell..... but the button may actually be an ear gauge, and it might be gold
One thing about it, the people had plenty of material to chose from!
Wow!!! I’m blown away!!!
A local artifact hunter states, unless you document Where things are found, you are not really doing it right .
He does!
lost for words, WOW
what is the wooden piece at the end
Once found a nice spear head about 5 miles south of the mason-Dixon border
Hi Gigmaster,great video, thanks for posting, what state is this?
john zimpleman Va
Wow.wow. That is one amazing collection..
beautiful - my daddy and paw paw has found some real beautiful arrowheads in uwharrie NC.
The thing u call a button was a brass rivet
Where is this Hutchens farm where he found his first mortar and pestle located? I'm only curious because I'm Hutchens searching geology.
tawodi66 Kempsville Virginia Beach VA
Gigmaster Thank you for your reply. I do have Hutchens from Henry County Virginia. Im Sure other places also but so far that's the only place I found. I love your videos thanks for sharing!!
Is there any chance you could talk that guy into a video of his entire collection? it would make a great video. Really enjoyed seeing that stuff, but video was too fast. Its worthy of a nice long video.
Creighton Workman Already on it!!! I agree! I did not even see it all!
yes, I want to see a video of him showing and telling the stoories....wow....wow....WOW!!!! amazing collection of dreams...
Creighton Workman agree interily my thots same !!!
Gigmaster what was the object in case with red felt outside. What was it’s purpose
Is that brass button possibly a rivet head?
Seems a little too heavy for that but it could be?
Betting it isn't brass.
All I can say is WOW!,,,,,
So what was that cool thing on the red pillow originally used for?
It is called a banner stone. Archaeologists have debated over the use of banner stones. Some have suggested that they are atlatl weights or ceremonial pieces. csasi.org/2005_april_journal/2005_april_journal_toc.htm
What was that fancy artifact at the end used for?
Ceremonial?
I don't know it's cool as heck though
so all this was found in Va and nc.now I know where to go
wow, look at all those mortars and pedestals!
Pedestal 😂😂😂
I asked an Arizona park ranger if my family could pick up pottery shards. He replied that the state had huge warehouses full of shards, arrow heads, sandals and much more and he said to help ourselves as the state would never, ever have time or resources to examine even a fraction of what they had. I said ok and off we went with our pockets full and smiles on our faces.
Super find is right good going its a 10 plus for sure
Don't touch! My guitars or rocks! Dude!
The Button at 4.14 mins, looks like it was a square nail on the back not a clasp, perhaps something used to nail into a wooden frame for upholstery ? A question if you dont mind ? where ish was the place with the fossils/ shells & how much above sea level is it ? thanks for doing the vids :)
Right at sea level except for the ones lodged in the cliff.
what if the stones were not axes i mean they are stone ? if you was to try one out what could you do with unless it was real sharp or just made to bust heads i dont know
7:30 ugh❤️where again were these found? My gawd so gorgeous!